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Club of high school girls founded in Detroit in 1942, with Mrs. Edward Davis as their chosen sponsor, adds new chapters.

Pictures A. Gordon Wright and his Grosse Pointe home as illustrative of trend toward open housing.

Prints text of letter to Detroit Edison Company asking jobs for Negroes.

Gives objectives of Bulletin's publisher, Detroit Civic Rights Committee; text of a plea for greater Negro employment in Friend of the Court agency; brief news notes; and articles describing various Negro clubs and organizations.

Details events of Detroit's Riot.

Partial Contents: WIlliam Ferguson Blazed path to Legislature after Proving Phenomenal Vote-Getting Power (pg. 2+); History of Negroes in City Post Office Dates from 1871 (pg. 5+); D. Augustus Straker, first Negro elected Court Commissioner (pg. 6);…

Charges are made by black members of Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 26.

Reprinted as pg. 64- 67 of Meltzer, Milton, ed. In Their Own Words, a History of the American Negro, 191601966. New York, Crowell, 1967.

Detroit's Barthwell Chain.